Euboeus (Pelorinus) chorasanicus (G. Medvedev, 1976 )

Nabozhenko, Maxim V., 2022, A taxonomic review of the genus Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) of the Caucasus, Iran and Turkmenistan, Zootaxa 5159 (4), pp. 451-486 : 482

Euboeus (Pelorinus) chorasanicus (G. Medvedev, 1976)

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Probaticus (Pelorinus) chorasanicus Medvedev, 1976: 893 ;

Euboeus (Pelorinus) chorasanicus: Nabozhenko, 2019 b: 1033 , fig. 21.

Type material. Holotype, ♂ ( ZIN): “В. Персiя Имам-Гуляръ—Кучанъ 16.III.98 Зарудный” (Cyrillic, old Russian) [E Persia, Imam-Gulyar—Quchan, leg. Zarudny], “ Holotypus Probathicus (Pelorinus) chorasanicus G. Medvedev, 1977 ” ( Fig. 16D ) . Paratype, ♀ ( ZIN): “ Хорасан М. Кучан—Имам Гуляр 16.III.98 Н. Зарудный” (Cyrillic, Russian) [Khorasan, Kuchan—Imam-Gulyar, leg. N. Zarudny] ( Fig. 15D ). Red labels with “ Holotypus ” and “ Paratypus ” were pinned by a laboratory assistant (A.K. Chistaykova) with erroneous year and the name of the genus .

Material. 1♂, 1♀ ( SMNS): Iran, North Khorasan Prov., Asadij (20 km SE Bojnurd), 1700 m, 4.04.2001 (leg. G. Sama) ; 1♂ ( ZIN): Iran, North Khorassan Prov., Bojnurd area, Gerivan , 37°17ʹN, 57°13ʹE, 1800 m, 12.v.2009 (leg. A. Klimenko) ; 1♀ ( ZIN): the same label, but 8.vi.2009 ; 1♀ ( NMPC): NE Iran, Razavi Khorasan Province, Kuh-e- Binalud , 20 km NE Nishapur, 13–15.vi.1977, 2500 m, Loc. No 366, (leg. Exped. Nat. Mus. Praha) .

Distribution. Iran (North Khorasan and Razavi Khorasan provinces). This species is terrestrial and inhabits xerophytic areas.

Variability. The female from Binalud Mt. differs by the weakly shiny body and dull elytra.

Figures

FIGURE 15. Euboeus merkli sp. nov., habitus, details of structure. A = male, dorsally; B = male, ventrally; C = female, dorsally; D = male, head and pronotum, dorsally; E = ditto, dorso-laterally; F = prothoracic hypomeron; G = male inner sternite VIII, ventrally; H = spiculum gastrale; I = tegmen, ventrally; J = median lobe of aedeagus, ventrally; K = apical piece of aedeagus, dorsally.

FIGURE 16. Euboeus quadricollis, male, holotype. A = habitus dorsally; B = labels.

FIGURE 19. Euboeus chorasanicus, habitus, details of structure. A = male, dorsally; B = female, paratype, dorsally; C = ditto, ventrally; D = labels of paratype; E = tegmen, ventrally; F = median lobe of aedeagus, ventrally; G = dorsal and ventral connective membranes between median lobe and tegmen; H = apical piece of aedeagus, dorsally; I = male inner sternite VIII, ventrally; J = spiculum gastrale.

FIGURE 20. Euboeus chorasanicus, male, holotype. A = habitus, dorsally; B = head and pronotum dorso-laterally; C = prothoracic hypomeron; D = labels.